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On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 3:51 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Am 09.10.20 um 09:38 schrieb Sandeep Raghuraman:
> >
> >
> > On 10/9/20 12:44 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Am 09.10.20 um 08:47 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
> >>> NACK for the entire lack of any form of commit description.
> >>
> >> Please see the documentation at [1] on how to describe the changes and
> >> getting your patches merged.
> >
> > Yes, I tried to use git send-email to send patches this time, and it resulted in this disaster. I'll stick to sending them through Thunderbird.
>
> What's the problem with send-email?
>
> A typical call for your patchset would look like
>
>   git send-mail <upstream-branch>...HEAD --cover-letter --annotate
> --to=... --cc=...
>
> That allows you to write the cover letter and have it sent out. IIRC you
> need ot set $EDITOR to your favorite text editor; and configure the SMTP
> server in ~/.gitconfig, under [sendemail].
>

You can also do `git format-patch -3 --cover-letter` and manually edit
the coverletter as needed then send them with git send-email.

Alex

> Best regards
> Thomas
>
> >
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Thomas
> >>
> >> [1]
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